Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 60 68
Rank change year-on-year -49 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,565 1,936 3,626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 4.38% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 4.72% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 977 2,694
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -14.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,374 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.75% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -46 1,425 £75,000 +3.45% 442
UK excluding London -94 739 £67,374 -3.75% 315
London -7 705 £85,000 - 181
Work from Home -32 677 £69,310 -0.99% 295
North of England -51 324 £69,310 -4.07% 99
South East -41 185 £67,500 -3.57% 92
North West -56 167 £75,000 +5.26% 68
Yorkshire -29 90 £67,153 -8.87% 18
Midlands -75 75 £67,500 -1.82% 25
South West -74 68 £52,500 -23.39% 49
North East +10 67 £65,000 -6.50% 14
West Midlands -55 54 £80,000 +14.29% 15
East of England -20 38 £60,100 +0.17% 15
Scotland -71 27 £62,500 -20.70% 14
East Midlands -66 20 £65,000 - 10
Wales -36 19 £59,085 +13.63% 12
Northern Ireland -34 7 £62,500 +25.00% 12
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.09%) Confluence
3 12 (0.77%) Apache
3 12 (0.77%) CMS
3 12 (0.77%) IIS
4 11 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.64%) JBoss
6 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.38%) WordPress
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 4 (0.26%) Camunda
9 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) Liferay
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.38%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 843 (53.87%) AWS
2 650 (41.53%) Azure
3 302 (19.30%) GCP
4 251 (16.04%) Serverless
5 154 (9.84%) SaaS
6 143 (9.14%) GitHub
7 134 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (6.58%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
13 67 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
14 64 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 63 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (3.32%) Azure AKS
17 48 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 44 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
20 42 (2.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.83%) Broadband
2 22 (1.41%) Network Security
3 11 (0.70%) DNS
3 11 (0.70%) MQTT
4 9 (0.58%) DMARC
5 8 (0.51%) VPN
6 7 (0.45%) DHCP
6 7 (0.45%) Firewall
6 7 (0.45%) HTTP
7 6 (0.38%) AMQP
7 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) Internet
8 5 (0.32%) LTE
8 5 (0.32%) RFID
9 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) SNMP
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.72%) NoSQL
2 198 (12.65%) MongoDB
3 182 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (6.20%) MySQL
5 82 (5.24%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
7 72 (4.60%) SQL Server
8 61 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (3.39%) DynamoDB
10 41 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (2.56%) Redis
12 29 (1.85%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.79%) Big Data
14 24 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) Db2
17 7 (0.45%) Power BI
18 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.38%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 196 (12.52%) Git
2 147 (9.39%) GitLab
3 128 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 47 (3.00%) JUnit
6 42 (2.68%) JIRA
7 38 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 33 (2.11%) Mockito
9 31 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.92%) CircleCI
10 30 (1.92%) Maven
11 28 (1.79%) Claude Code
12 19 (1.21%) Selenium
13 16 (1.02%) JMeter
13 16 (1.02%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.96%) Vite
15 11 (0.70%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.70%) Postman
15 11 (0.70%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 427 (27.28%) Finance
2 295 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 157 (10.03%) Banking
4 142 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (5.69%) Law
6 87 (5.56%) Retail
7 79 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.51%) Financial Institution
9 45 (2.88%) Back Office
10 30 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.47%) Marketing
13 18 (1.15%) Advertising
13 18 (1.15%) Billing
14 14 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.77%) Legal
16 10 (0.64%) Front Office
16 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 531 (33.93%) Developer
2 394 (25.18%) Senior
3 322 (20.58%) Software Engineer
4 225 (14.38%) Architect
5 211 (13.48%) Lead
6 138 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (8.63%) Java Developer
8 120 (7.67%) Java Engineer
9 119 (7.60%) Senior Developer
10 110 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (6.84%) .NET Developer
12 87 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 69 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 66 (4.22%) Principal Engineer
15 62 (3.96%) Software Developer
16 55 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.32%) Senior Java Engineer
19 48 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.75%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (22.04%) .NET
2 344 (21.98%) React
3 292 (18.66%) Node.js
4 272 (17.38%) Spring
5 261 (16.68%) RESTful
6 247 (15.78%) Spring Boot
7 218 (13.93%) REST
8 197 (12.59%) Kafka
9 138 (8.82%) AngularJS
10 118 (7.54%) .NET Core
11 115 (7.35%) ASP.NET
11 115 (7.35%) Vue
12 88 (5.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 83 (5.30%) HTML
14 81 (5.18%) gRPC
15 75 (4.79%) CSS
16 65 (4.15%) .NET Framework
17 62 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
18 57 (3.64%) OAuth
19 54 (3.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 458 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 274 (17.51%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.88%) Over-the-Top Content
9 35 (2.24%) Algorithms
10 33 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 25 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.34%) PKI
16 20 (1.28%) e-Learning
17 18 (1.15%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.88%) Linux
2 38 (2.43%) Windows
3 20 (1.28%) Unix
4 7 (0.45%) Android
4 7 (0.45%) CentOS
4 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (50.99%) CI/CD
2 651 (41.60%) Agile
3 579 (37.00%) DevOps
4 573 (36.61%) Software Engineering
5 396 (25.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 391 (24.98%) Containerisation
7 359 (22.94%) Mentoring
8 333 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 315 (20.13%) Event-Driven
10 299 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 297 (18.98%) AI
12 293 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 276 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
14 199 (12.72%) Scrum
15 193 (12.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 189 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
17 184 (11.76%) Coaching
18 182 (11.63%) TDD
19 177 (11.31%) Clean Code
20 162 (10.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 534 (34.12%) Java
2 399 (25.50%) Python
3 351 (22.43%) SQL
4 339 (21.66%) JavaScript
5 325 (20.77%) C#
6 255 (16.29%) TypeScript
7 124 (7.92%) Go
8 50 (3.19%) Scala
9 49 (3.13%) PHP
10 43 (2.75%) C++
11 42 (2.68%) Bash
12 34 (2.17%) Ruby
13 27 (1.73%) C
14 23 (1.47%) Rust
15 21 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.34%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.15%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.96%) Bicep
17 15 (0.96%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 185 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 162 (10.35%) Degree
3 124 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 30 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.73%) CISSP
8 26 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.77%) CISM
12 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.51%) PhD
14 7 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.32%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.16%) QA
2 49 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.30%) GDPR
4 34 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.53%) NIST
7 21 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.89%) GRC
9 13 (0.83%) WCAG
10 12 (0.77%) NCSC
11 11 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.19%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.064%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 448 (28.63%) Docker
2 17 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 478 (30.54%) Kubernetes
2 299 (19.11%) Terraform
3 88 (5.62%) Ansible
4 86 (5.50%) Grafana
5 47 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.53%) Argo
7 23 (1.47%) Kibana
8 14 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.83%) Puppet
10 12 (0.77%) Cilium
11 7 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
13 3 (0.19%) Rancher
14 2 (0.13%) Istio
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 178 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.28%) Google
3 50 (3.19%) Oracle
4 45 (2.88%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.34%) Splunk
7 16 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 13 (0.83%) IBM
8 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 11 (0.70%) SendGrid
10 9 (0.58%) Adobe
10 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (0.58%) Databricks
10 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.51%) Cisco
12 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.45%) SAP